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There are a number of risks involved with leaving a child unattended in a vehicle. A Mississippi mom has learned this the hard way after her SUV rolled into a creek killing two of her children on Saturday.

WAPT16 reports Jenea Monique Payne, 25, told officers she left her three children inside of her Nissan Pathfinder before entering a local Stop-N-Shop around 5:45 p.m.

On March 9, 2019 around 5:45 p.m., the Leland Police Department was called in reference to a white Nissan Pathfinder…

Ms. Payne stated that as she came out of the store her vehicle was gone and had rolled into the creek. Ms. Payne then stated that her two sons Steve Smith (4) & Rasheed Johnson Jr. (1) and her daughter Raelynn Johnson (2) were locked inside the vehicle.

Prior to Payne coming out of the store, Leland Fire Chief Bobby Johnson and other bystanders had already noticed the vehicle floating in Deer Creek. They jumped in the water and tried to rescue the children, but were only able to save two-year-old Raelynn Johnson.

Police said:

As the vehicle floated down the creek, these individuals ended up only being able to rescue one of the three kids before having to swim to safety. The vehicle then drifted further down into the creek. Leland volunteer firefighters probed the creek attempting to find the vehicle, when a rescue dive team arrived and entered the water. The vehicle was found at 8 p.m.

When the vehicle was pulled from the creek, Payne’s two sons were still inside. Officials pronounced the boys dead at the scene.

According to Very Well Family, there are numerous dangers that come with leaving children unattended in vehicles. They include gear-shifted crashes, extreme temperatures, locking the parents out of the car, getting trapped in the trunk, or getting limbs or necks caught in windows.

On 3/11/2019, Jenea Payne was booked and charged at the Leland Police Department for an incident that occurred on…

Y’all charge the lady after she’s already lost 2 of her kids? It just doesnt make sense to me, that’s like beating a dead horse..

A mother of six commented:

Let me just say this! I am a parent of 6 and I myself have left the kids in the car while I ran in to grab that one thing I needed! Does that make us a bad parent, NO!!! This young lady is gonna have to live with this pain for the rest of her life! People never think something like this will happen! Now I myself will rethink my actions but I do not believe she should go to jail over this! She has already given herself a life sentence!

Another user commented:

Are you serious!!!! Lord be with this young mother. My mother did the same thing to my sister and I when we were 4 and 5 years old. I pulled the gear down and we went rolling. A worker name Pie jumped in the car, pushed me aside and stop the car before we went in that same creek. Speaking with my mother the day before this happened we all laughed about us almost dying just to wake up hearing this news. This could have been my mother and I know she loves us dearly. She just didn’t want us begging in the store so she told us to stay in. Lord please help Jenea.

On Monday, the Leland Police Department said that Payne has since been released “on her own Recognizance Bond by the Washington County Justice Court.”

A car in park doesn’t just roll away and it would be a tad difficult to get out of a moving car. This doesn’t add up as an accident. Why is a grocery store built waterfront? How did it not hit other cars/ cement big boys or a building or a tree? No no no this was no accident.

Based on the age of those children, there’s nothing that important that she needed to get and leave them in the car. Yes it’s annoying to get them out of car but children of those ages are not going to sit still while unattended, plus she probably didn’t have any emergency brake on and may have left the car running which would explain how the gear shift was put into a drive gear out of park. I certainly hope whatever she needed to get was that important.

There is absolutely “NO” excuse for this negligence! She should be charged as she was charged and get the punishment she has earned NOW. I also wonder where this store was with no protection from such running water. Imagine what the children went through trapped and drowning and no way out…. “now” tell me how sorry you feel for the neglectful mother. Putting herself first ahead of the children is disgusting!

Listen all y’all is dam unfit to me the way the world is today anything can happen so with that being said if she didn’t want them dam kids to go into the store with her she should have left them fucken home 6and all of them will still be here today another 50 years or more God bless her but she knew better than that